Tag: NAICOM. Protest

Operatives from the Department of State Security and the Nigerian Police Force on Wednesday rescued the Commissioner for Insurance, Alh Mohammed Kari, from being attacked by protesting workers at the commission.

Kari was appointed as the CFI by President Muhammadu Buhari on July 30,2015 following the expiration of the tenure of the former CFI, Mr Fola Daniel.

The operatives were said to have arrived the headquarters of the National Insurance Commission where the office of Kari is located at about 9am and took the the CFI into what was described as protective custody.

Kari who was putting on a dark blue traditional attire and a cap to match was taken away by operatives of the DSS in a grey Toyota RAV4 which was escorted by a white Toyota Hilux

Indications that there would be trouble at the commission began at the early hours of Wednesday when the workers’ union shut the business premises of the commission and prevented access into the building.

They carried placards with various inscriptions such as “Mohammed Kari must go,” “President Muhammadu Buhari save NAICOM from collapse,” “NAICOM boss indicted for N54bn scam and “nepotism and favoritism in NAICOM.”

The workers according to the Vice Chairman of the workers union, Mr Mahmoud Usman were protesting what he described as incompetence as well as financial abuse.

In a protest letter written by the union, it said, “The present Commissioner for Insurance,Alh Mohammed Kari was indicted chub the Justice Obiora Nwazota in May 2002 judicial panel report on the N54bn ‘loot’ of the liquidated Nigeria Airways LTD.